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Brotato Gentle Alien

Tier 1 item · 38 builds in our database

Gentle Alien increases your Max HP by 2 and boosts your Damage and the number of enemies by 5%. This item is useful for sustaining longer in waves while dealing more damage.

Item Stats

Max HP+2
Damage+5 %
Enemies+5%

Meta Usage

tracked builds (curated + per-character meta) include Gentle Alien

Auto-Tier

From usage frequency across our build pool, weighted by difficulty

Top characters

Most often: Loud

When to buy Gentle Alien

Pick Gentle Alien if you're playing characters like Ranger or Druid, especially in builds focusing on survivability and crowd control. It synergizes well with items that enhance healing or damage output.

When to skip Gentle Alien

Avoid this item if you're using characters that rely on low HP for scaling, such as the Engineer, as it may reduce your effectiveness.

Items most often combined with Gentle Alien

Calculated from 38 builds in our database that ship Gentle Alien. Higher % = more consistent synergy.

Best characters for Gentle Alien

Characters that pick up Gentle Alien in our curated build pool — with notes on why the combo works where we have them.

Loud

3 builds

Extra enemies directly fuel Loud’s damage-focused playstyle and Ghost Flint’s on-kill attack speed scaling, while adding Max HP and damage to help you survive the increased chaos.

Ghost

1 build

Gentle Alien increases both damage and max HP while spawning more enemies. For Ghost, more enemies means more ethereal kills and therefore more scaling on Axe, Flint and Scepter.

Jack

2 builds

Gentle Alien offsets Jack’s low enemy count by spawning more targets while also granting damage and HP, helping both economy and DPS without overwhelming him.

King

3 builds

Gentle Alien is one of King’s best tier I pickups because the first copy does not reduce Max HP and it boosts both damage and Max HP while adding more enemies to farm, which pairs well with strong scaling and on‑kill effects.

Apprentice

3 builds

Gentle Alien pairs more enemies (and therefore more XP and drops) with extra damage and a bit of Max HP. It’s a great way to accelerate Apprentice’s level-based scaling when you can already handle the wave density.

Bull

3 builds

Gentle Alien gives Max HP and global damage while increasing enemy count, which is ideal for Bull – more enemies mean more explosions and better wave clear.

One Armed

2 builds

Provides both Max HP and % Damage, which is doubled by One Armed's passive, while the extra enemies greatly increase farming and explosion or bounce value for your single weapon.

Druid

2 builds

Gentle Alien adds more enemies to farm for materials and consumables while giving both Max HP and Damage, which complement Druid’s snowballing Luck and wave clear.